Dynamically Create SubMenu using MvcSite map Mvc3 - asp.net-mvc-3

I have created a MvcSite Map which contains Menu Itmes this Site Map is displayed on the shared layout page using #Html.MvcSiteMap.Menu(false,true,true)
i have a custom code in MenuHelpModel.cshtml file
now i want to create some menuitmes when a user login i am getting the number of organization the user belongs which is dynamic "a user can be a member of n number of organization"
is there any way I can write the dynamic menu in the MenuHelpModel or do I need to write the Code in layout and use Jquery to populate the Menu?
Is there any way to use ViewBag inside jQuery?

This can be done the way you require. Firstly, you need to create a "Authorized" layout page.
In this page you can setup your MvcSiteMap as per your code above. The authorized page loads this master page. You use the DynamicNodeProvider class to load up the organizations based on the Authenticated UserID.

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Recommendations for developing Laravel User account pages as SPA?

Looking to rebuild account pages for users of a Laravel 8 based application using something like Inertia/Livewire, Vue/React to make just the account area an SPA. User accounts currently have many pages in which to manage their items and have a dashboard that summarises item data that link to item listing pages for managing.
Ideally the new dashboard will have component based widgets which would load the HTML with temporary place holders for the items whilst the data is being requested. Not sure what would make a better user experience, having the whole page show temporary place holders for dynamic data and then all populate at the same time or populate each component as and when the data is ready.
Would it be more efficient to have each component request its own data individually or should each component specify what data it needs to the parent component (dashboard) which then does one request for all widgets?
The widgets would link to item listing pages where users can manage items. The way the listing pages should work is very similar to that of Asana, when an item is selected it opens a panel to the right of the list which loads the data related to that item. Again, when the panel opens it has place holders until the data requested has been fetched.
With Inertia the data can be queried in the controller and then passed as props to the view that Inertia renders. Items would be passed in this way and then listed on a listing page component. The URL should update from /items to /item/123 when clicking an item so it would have its own dynamic route that passes the item id to the relevant action.
Would this have its own action separate from the one that gets the initial list of items?
The list still needs to be there and used to click between items so was thinking it could actually use the same action?
Items could be in the thousands and will have filtering options so pagination and throttling will be necessary.
Been looking at Inertia with Vue so far and it looks to meet requirements, can’t change from using Laravel 8, just wondering what approach would be most suitable or if there is another approach that should be considered. Interested to hear how others might go about it.

Can a dynamic link be created to be used from a view in Dynamics CRM?

I would like to be able to include a link in a view on the contact entity of dynamics crm that will pop a custom window that we have built. The custom window needs the contact id and the user id in order to function. Our users have requested that such a link be on the view rather than having to go into the contact record itself.
So, is it possible to create a dynamic URL that will be utilized from the view and will be able to determine the contact id and the user id?
I would assume I need to do this with a web resource, but I've only ever used a web resource in an iframe.
I have tried to build a web resource and just use the web resource's link to put into a field and display that field on the view, but obviously that didn't work.
Essentially the link would build a url and then pop up a new window with that url. Here's my url structure: https://example.com/mscrm/ticketing/Activity/PhoneCallSave.aspx?cId=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000&id=%7b00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000%7d&orgname=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000&userid=%7b00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000%7d&type=contact&token=Zf7Hi3PFokqRn3RnTD6hPA
This is an interesting request that I have not encountered before...
I thought about using a URL-formatted field, and the fact that D365 by default will hyperlink lookup fields. But, with those options you'd have to write data into a field on each Contact or create an entire new record for each Contact, on the fly.
What about creating a separate web resource that contains a table with only one column to hold the dynamically generated URL's? Run the same query as the view to get the Contacts, then generate the URL's and populate them into that "mini-grid". Put the main Contacts view in one section (say two-columns wide), and the mini-grid web resource in a single-column section right next to it, with no border and the same row height.
This way you rely on the main Contact grid for the Contact info, with the mini-grid holding your dynamic URL's (with proper link names of course, rather than raw URL's).
The high-level steps would be:
Get the user's id from the form context.
OnLoad of the sub-grid, get the set of Contact Id's.
Generate the URL for each Contact.
Populate the URL's into the mini-grid in the same order as the Contacts in the sub-grid, so each row in the mini-grid lines up with its Contact row to the left.
Another idea would be to look into the custom icon functionality in V9 to see if there are any hooks in there where you can add a dynamic URL.
You could also write a RetrieveMultiple plugin to dynamically populate a URL-formatted text field. RetrieveMultiple plugins have their caveats. But, how bad is it?
An unsupported option might be to hack the DOM and put your dynamic URL into a blank URL-formatted field in the view.

MVC3 global predicate filter

I am building an admin console and all controllers depend on a dropdown selection for customer.
I would like to move this customer selection to the layout and persist it across all controllers so that you do not need to select it everywhere.
What is the best way to go about doing this?
Thanks in advance.
Move the dropdown to your _layout.cshtml.
Create a BaseView that all views will inherit from and give it a property to store the Customers & Current Customer.
Create a BaseController method that will fill in a BaseView instance.
Store the currently selected customer on your session.
Create a Global Filter and have it check all views to see if they inherit BaseView. If they do it can convert them to a BaseView and then fill in the properties.
Write some code in the _layout that can use the View to fill in the dropdown. I'm a bit fuzzy here since my coworker actually did this part when we did something similar.
When the user changes the dropdown value you can use JSON to call an action method that will update the current customer in session.
I would consider writing HTML helper. You assume that all the birds can fly, but say one day you have another exceptional scenario and you no longer need this dropdown box. Alternatively include it in a partial view and render that view where you need it - it's only one extra line of code.
E.g.
#section main_content{
#{ Html.RenderPartial("MyPartialViewContainingDropDownBox"); }
}

MVC3: Showing entity relationships in a view

I am new to ASP.NET MVC and I have a question regarding viewing entity relationships.
Say I have an entity called 'Person'. This holds the usual data relating to a person (Name, Email, etc). I also have a 'Notes' entity. Under EF, a 'Person' can have many 'Notes'.
I have a Person controller where I can view and preform CRUD operations on a Person object.
I can show the notes in the view easily but what is the best way to allow a user to add/edit/delete these notes from the Person view? I am hoping to do this using AJAX and not have the user move to a completely different page to add/edit/delete a note.
Thanks in advance,
ViperMAN.
When they edit a note, popup a jQuery dialog pointing to your URL to edit or have a separate Ajax.BeginForm() on the page that the details go into. When they finish the edit call a method to refresh the notes.
So:
1. In your Notes grid (or whatever)
you have an edit link for each note called "edit"
this link looks something like the following:
This one actually uses 'notes' : )
http://www.iwantmymvc.com/dialog-form-with-jqueryui-and-mvc-3
ASP.NET MVC | Problem about showing modal dialog using jQuery dialog widget
ASP.NET MVC modal dialog/popup best practice
Also beware of this scenario for multiple links:
MVC3 - Only first row link works well with Jquery Modal Dialog
Now the urls you use to populate the dialogs would be for example
/Note/Edit/10
One thing to note - jQuery validation needs to know about these new items that are being loaded via ajax into the DOM , so in your partial view you need to tell jQuery validation to include the new items - I'll edit in a bit to add this, have to grab it from another machine.

Handling site wide data in MVC Razor

I've seen this question asked in a couple of places and generally the answer has been "use the ViewBag" which I don't think fits our scenario.
We have a membership site which has common properties (e.g. Account -which contains the user's account settings) and I would like to use that in both the Views and _layout.cshtml (e.g. to allow the user to change the colour scheme).
In the views, we're inheriting from a base view model but how can we get access to this data in the standard pages e.g. About Us etc which don't have any associated view model? I've tried creating a partial view which passes the data through in it's controller but that didn't work
Your main options are:
1. Consider implementing a profile provider - the settings are then available everywhere, use an Action Filter
2. use your own custom context assigned to the current request/user
3. use a base controller/base viewmodel for the pages that don't have them
4. use a global action filter
5. viewdata/session
See some details at:
ASP.NET MVC 3 layout ViewBag data across all child views
if you already have this working and need access in an "About Us" page and don't want another view model (why not?) then an action filter would be the way to go - unless this is a typical aspx page in that case you are left without options 3/4 above.

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